eli5 : Why does water put out fire ?
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Water has a massive heat capacity, it “can store a lot of heat energy”, so it cools things down really fast (or heats them up fast, depending on it’s temperature.
It also of course suffocates parts of the fire, the layer of water prevents oxygen getting in, which is the active agent of (most) fires, so all in all it dies pretty fast
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